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AMERICAN 

UNIVERSITY 


1904 



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FOR THE HONOR OF 


U. S. C. L G. SURVFv 

LIBRARY AND ABWivb, 

SEP 3 1904 

Aco. No. 


PROTESTANTISM AND AMERICANISM 



HISTORY POINTS 

1890—Ninety-one acres of land purchased for $ 100 , 000 . 

1893—Chartered by Congress. 

1896—Ground broken for College of History. 

1898— College of History completed. Cost $ 176 , 000 . 

1899— $ 12,000 spent in grading. 

1899— Two acres of land purchased to straighten line on Nebraska Avenue. 

1900— Nebraska Avenue opened and graded. 

1901— Office of Superintendent of Grounds moved and $ 1,000 spent in grading and 

improvement. 

1902— Foundation of McKinley Memorial Ohio College of Government completed. 
1902—Corner-stone of College of Government laid by President Roosevelt. 

1902—Resignation of Chancellor Bishop John F. Hurs‘, because of ill health. 

1902— Election of Bishop Charles C. McCabe as Chancellor. 

1903— Death of Bishop John F. Hurst. 


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The American University 


FOUNDED BY 

Bishop John Fletcher Hurst. 


o All Friends of Christian Education : 

A great and representative Christian University is 
being founded in onr National Capital. A magnificent 
site of ninety-three acres at the northwest end of 
Massachusetts Avenue, costing $ 110 , 000 , has been donated by the 
citizens of Washington. We have received onr charter from the 
Congress itself. 

These steps for the founding of The American University 
were taken after consultation with wise and trusted leaders of our 
common American Protestantism. 



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Why the American University? 


We are entering a new educational era. There is great need 
in America for the training and equipment of students in special 
and original research, who are to be the leaders of thought in the 
Western world. At present they must go to European countries 
for the best facilities. Hundreds of young Americans every year 
go to Germany, seeking post-graduate institutions. Why should 
these Americans be compelled to breathe the skeptical atmosphere 
of Continental lecture-rooms? Let us have at home the best 
facilities the world can furnish. Let American Protestantism be 
the first to reap the harvest. 

Why Under Christian Leadership? 

To secure the Christian spirit and atmosphere, culture must 
not be separated from Christian life. The loftiest educational 
ideals can never be realized by institutions under the patronage 
of the State, depending on its treasury, and subject to political 
bias and fluctuations. ' The only assurance of an untrammeled 
Christian spirit and purpose is in the leadership of a great 
Protestant Church, which seeks to know all facts, believe all 
truth, and find the solution of all problems, and which holds 
itself responsible for a sound theology. 


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Why in Washington? 

The fitness of the National Capital as our country’s true 
educational center did not escape the attention of George Wash¬ 
ington. With characteristic far-sightedness he fixed upon it as 
the only proper location for a truly representative University. 
From his days to our own, distinguished statesmen and educators 
have emphasized his choice. Recently the Roman Catholic 
Church has established an institution here to represent its faith, 
promote its interests, and become the heart of its mediaeval 
educational system. A number of magnificent buildings have 
already been erected and a strong faculty organized. The new 
Pope has taken great interest in the movement and has 
directed that a collection be taken in every Roman Catholic 
church in America, every year for ten years to come, for 
that University. The one of the current year amounted to 
$ 100 , 000 . 

We admire its courage and the keenness of its vision. 
But we deem it due to Protestantism—to which the world of 
science and vital religion looks for leadership—to undertake 
the establishment of an institution of learning which shall 
represent its highest educational purposes and that spiritual 
life on account of which the world has deemed Protestantism 
worthy of confidence. 

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Washington as a University Site 

The reasons why Washington furnishes the best site available 
for the American University can not be too frequently stated or 
too strongly emphasized. If you will carefully study the “whys” 
in the statements which follow, you will discover how they 
weave themselves naturally into an unanswerable argument, and 
should convince anyone at all interested in higher education of 
the almost criminal neglect which might be charged to those who 
see these things, and yet will not be moved by them. It was the 
realization of these privileges and obligations that prompted the 
projectors of the American University to set themselves to the 
accomplishment of their Herculean task. They could not do 
otherwise than they did and be true to their convictions. Why 
at Washington? Took and see. 

Washington is the heart of the nation. The life blood flows 
out from this fountain. Here our civil, political and social life 
centers. It is rapidly becoming one of the greatest and most 
beautiful capitals in the world. 

It is built in the midst of one of the finest landscapes in 
America—one that becomes to the lover of nature a constant 
source of pleasure and inspiration. 

The City of Washington is without parallel in this country 
for the excellence of its plan ; for the number of its parks, 


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squares, triangles and circles ; for the breadth and beauty of its 
streets, the magnificence of its public structures, and the extent 
of its adornment with historic monuments and the statues of 
heroic men. “ Washington is American history statuesque.” 

It abounds in historic associations of priceless value. One 
sees on every hand the private abodes and places for public 
activity of statesmen, orators, scholars and scientists who have 
won immortal honors and added unfading luster to the American 
name. 

As the city stands to-day it is hardly equaled by any other 
for the elegance of its private mansions, and the building of new 
ones, each vying with the other, still proceeds at a rapid pace. 
Work is now progressing on a magnificent union railroad station, 
which is to cost, in the aggregate, fourteen millions of dollars, and 
will be the most beautiful, in all its appointments, that can be 
found in the world. Plans for parking, waterways, bridges, and 
adornments of every conceivable kind, all on a magnificent scale, 
to beautify the city, and even extending into the suburbs, have 
recently been perfected which will demand the expenditure of 
fifty millions of dollars to be used through a series of years, 

Washington is a desirable place for the residence of advanced 
students and professors, because of the unequaled proportion of its 
citizens eminent for culture in science, art, letters and philosophy. 


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It is no less desirable on account of its metropolitan char¬ 
acter. Here are gathered annually and almost constantly leading 
representatives from every hemisphere ; not only the statesmen of 
all sections, but also the representatives of every sort of national 
organization. It is fast becoming the rallying point for every 
great interest of the country and the world. 

Washington has already an aggregation of facilities and 
opportunities in the way of legislative bodies, courts of every 
class, scientific bureaus, and like organizations, as well as 
libraries, museums, art collections, laboratories, workshops, and 
other sources of help available to a greater or less extent to 
students, such as is surpassed by no city in the world. 

Already the total valuation of the collections—literary and 
scientific—belonging to the Government and available for pur¬ 
poses of instruction, is nearly forty million dollars, and the 
aggregate expenditure for the care and extension of them in the 
work of the Government is about eight million dollars annually. 
These collections are now growing in size and importance as 
never before, and all of them were thrown open to the use of 
students by Act of Congress, brought about through the appeal 
of the Trustees of the American University. 

The Library of Congress, housed in the mod beautiful 
library building in the world, has now more than a million 


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volumes and is destined to outrank any library to be found on the 
face of the earth. 

The Smithsonian Institution, having relations of exchange 
with every government, institution, and society of importance in 
the world, is prepared to offer to the University unparalleled 
advantages in the departments of natural history and the arts. 

The Carnegie Institution by its world-wide outlook and strong 
hand of helpfulness encourages individualment in science, art and 
letters, and has here its central home. 

There are in Washington thousands of experts in all branches 
of public service, from the shops in the navy yard to the Supreme 
Court itself, together constituting an unrivaled cluster of genius 
an<l rare attainments. Hundreds of these men could serve a great 
university either as lecturers and instructors or by special counsels. 

For all these reasons—for what Washington is, embraces and 
represents—there is no place like it in America for the culture 
and sure growth of a love of country. The students here gathered 
from every cpiarter, and here taught, not only by the uni¬ 
versity, but by the spirit and patriotic influences of the city itself, 
would return to their homes better qualified to serve their country 
and more resolute in purpose to protect it from perils of every 
nature and to promote its highest welfare. 

There is no such massing of facilities and opportunities for 
higher education in any single city in the world as can be 


found in Washington, and to allow these vast and varied re¬ 
sources to remain unused in any definite way in the interest ot 
science and learning, while at the same time thoughtful and 
aspiring students are compelled to cross the sea to find that in 
higher education which they ought to be able to find at home, is 
certainly poor economy and seems hardly less than criminal. 

These are some of the reasons why the American University 
should be built in Washington, and why thoughtful and 
influential people who love their country and their kind should 
give it their sympathy and support. 

Scientific Collections 

The University must be in Washington because of the 
exceptional facilities of the National Capital as a distributing 
center for great intellectual and moral forces and because of the 
incomparable advantages for scientific and literary investigation 
presented by the General Government. American university life 
is destined to center here. The Congressional, Departmental, 
and Technical Libraries, together with the Smithsonian Institu¬ 
tion, offer advantages unparalleled by any other city. 

Recent careful investigation has tabulated certain information 
concerning these collections. 


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Their Value 


1. Library of Congress.$ 9,500,000 

2. National Museum. 6,500,000 

3. Patent Office. 5,682,540 

4. Bureau of Education. 200,000 

5. Bureau of Ethnology. 200,000 

6. Army Medical Museum. 1,500,000 

7. Department of Agriculture. 4.500,000 

8. Fish Commission. 1,000,000 

9. Botanical Gardens. 1,250,000 

10. Coast and Geodetic Survey. r,500,000 

11. Geological Survey. 5,100,000 

12. Naval Observatory. 1,835,000 

Total.$38.767,540 

Annual Appropriations 

Army Medical Museum.$ 15,000 

Bureau of Education. 62,190 

Bureau of Ethnology. 50,000 

Botanical Garden. 50,787 

Coast Survey. 513,500 

Department of Agriculture. 4,058,160 

Fish Commission. 350,000 

Geological Survey. 1,126,962 

Library of Congress. 510,000 

Nautical Almanac Office. 28,200 

Naval Observatory. 50,230 

National Museum. 519,400 

Patent Office . •. 1,039,950 

Smithsonian Institution. 87,000 

Zoological Park. 95,000 


Total.$ 8, 556,379 

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All these great collections are now thrown open by special 
Act of Congress to all scientific students without a dollar’s cost 
to the student. Money given for education here must, therefore, 
go farther than anywhere else in the country, because of these 
priceless accessories. 

Students 

The American University proposes to receive as students 
young men and women who shall have completed their academic 
studies and received their first degree. Its plan is to furnish the 
amplest facilities for the broadest and highest work in professional, 
original, and special studies—a University in the true sense of 
the word ; unique in our American life, standing exclusively for 
post-graduate work. 

Magnitude of the Undertaking 

The institution is designed to represent the highest form of 
Christian education, to be an exponent of the best forces of Chris¬ 
tian thought and activity, and to express at this center of our civil 
and political influence the firm faith of our people and their 
devotion to Christ and His Kingdom. It will be neither narrow 
nor sectarian. We can not afford to make it inferior to the 
strongest in the Union. 

Proposed Buildings 

These are a series of buildings, classical in their style of 
architecture, fronting upon beautiful quadrangles. These noble 
edifices will be built of marble and will form a most imposing 
University group. 

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ADMINISTRATION HAI.L. 

Departments: 

General Offices 
Senate Chamber 
Record Hall 
Reference Library 

COLLEGE OF HISTORY. 
Departments: 

American 
European 
Mediterranean 
Oriental 

COLLEGE OF SCIENCE. 
Departments : 

Mathematics 
Physics 
Chemistry 
Biology 

COLLEGE OF PHILOSOPHY. 

Departments : 

Metaphysics 
History of Philosophy 
Psychology 
Logic 

In addition to these eight 
group of buildings will include 


COLLEGE OF COMPARATIVE 
RELIGION 
Deportments : 

Pagan 

Christian 

Comparative 

COLLEGE OF GOVERNMENT. 
Departments : 

Constitutional Law 
Science of Government 
Diplomatics 
Civics 

COLLEGE OF LANGUAGES. 
Departments : 

Oriental 

Semitic 

Classical 

Modern 

COLLEGE OF LITERATURE. 
Departments : 

Vedic and Oriental 
Grecian and Roman 
Mediaeval 
Modern 

college edifices the University 
the College of Law, the College 


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of Medicine, the College of Technology, the College of Art, and 
the Museum. A handsome and fully equipped Observatory is 
just now promised by a wealthy gentleman of Pennsylvania, 
costing $100,000, which will include the mounting of the famous 
Peate reflector, one of the largest ever made, which has for 
some years been in the possession of the University. These 
buildings must be erected and such other structures as the 
expanding needs of the University shall demand. There should 
be also special endowments in the various Colleges for Professor¬ 
ships, for the support of Fellows and Students, and for the 
establishment of Special Lecture Courses similar to the Bampton 
and Feruley Lectures. 



Grouping of Vroposed 'Buildings 

Twenty-three buildings contemplated. Ten million dollars 
to be secured for erection and endowment. 


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College oj' History 

Subscriptions for College of History begun January 16, 1895. 
Pledges of $150,000 completed 011 May 15, 1895. 

Building committee appointed June 6, 1895. 

Architects appointed December, 1895. 

The ground-breaking March 9, 1896. 

Building begun June, 1896. 

The corner-stone laid October 21, 1896. 

College of History completed February 1, 1898. 

The building cost $176,000 and contains forty-two rooms. 

It is built of Vermont marble, and is one of the finest and 
most complete buildings for school purposes in the world. It is 
completely finished and is practically ready for occupancy. 

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McK^inley Memorial—Ohio College oj' Government 


The foundation is completed and the corner stone laid by 
President Roosevelt. It will be a worthy and significant memorial 
to the martyred President, who was a Trustee of the University. 
It will be built of marble and will cost $250,000. A liberal 
donation has been made on the marble. Bids have been asked 
for and the building will doubtless be commenced at an early 
day. More money is needed to complete it. 












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The young* people of the Epworth League have set them¬ 
selves to the task of erecting this building. Generous responses 
have come from more than five hundred Leagues. The interest 
ebbs and flows. All which has been so far received will be held 
for the building. Generous friends will make its completion 
possible. One noble and wealthy layman, trained to generosity 
and right living through the influence of the Epworth League, 
will, when the time comes, step to the front and make this glad 
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College oj Comparatt'Ve 'Religion 

The work so far on this Foundation lias been in the hands ot 
the Woman’s Guild of The American University. They have 
worked wisely and faithfully, and have many plans for the future. 


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2>r. John Peate and His Great Mirror 

This mirror cost Dr. Peate two years of incessant labor. At 
the time it was completed (1898) it was the largest mirror in 
existence—5 feet 2 inches in diameter. Drawings have been 
completed for an observatory. A friend proposes to erect the 
building and fully equip this great glass for service. 


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The Library. 

This has been growing rapidly through the gifts of generous 
friends. 

The General John A. Logan Memorial Library (3,500 
volumes), the Judge William M. Springer Memorial Library 
(5,000 volumes), and various other gifts from many quarters bring 
the total number up to nearly 15,000 volumes. With the 
Congressional Library at our doors we shall never feel the 
necessity of providing such elaborate library facilities as must 
be made by schools removed from such advantages as are afforded 
by the Capital City. 

The Museum. 

The cabinets are being filled with rare minerals and curios, 
which have come from many quarters. Standing about are 
objects of fascinating interest and almost priceless worth—the 
desk used by Edwin M. Stanton during his term as Secretary of 


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War, the dining table and chairs of Senator Sumner, the ward¬ 
robe and manuscript file of the historian, Bancroft; an heroic bust 
on pedestal of General John A. Logan ; a handsomely carved 
historic chair made from the beams of City Road Chapel, 
London, where John Wesley preached, brought over by the 
British delegates to the Ecumenical Conference of 1891, used by 
the presiding officer during the Conference and afterwards 
presented to the American University; a portrait of Bishop 
Francis Asbury painted on wood—an unusual treasure. 

The Needed Endowment. 

Ten Million Dollars must be dedicated to God and humanity 
in order to accomplish the magnificent undertaking which is 
planned in The American University. 

We appeal to all friends of Christian education, under what¬ 
ever denominational banner, and to all lovers of Protestant 
America, for co-operation in the great work of establishing The 
American University, which shall conserve and promote all the 
interests of our country and our common Christianity. Members 
of other Christian bodies have given practical expression of their 
gratitude at the inauguration of this great enterprise. Five or 
six denominations are represented on its Board of Trustees. The 


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influence of its work will not be limited but will be world¬ 
wide. 

We appeal to the rich, who are the Lord’s stewards. How 
can they better perpetuate their beneficence and name than by a 
princely gift to build one of our colleges or endow a chair of 
learning in an institution at the National Capital of such high 
order as the American University? 

To those of limited means, we appeal to give according to 
their ability, though their gifts be dimes. They or their children 
may be the recipients of thousand-fold benefits. 

The assets of the University in real estate, securities, and 
substantial subscriptions are now $2,400,000, including the value 
of the site. 

Bequests should be made to “ The American University, 
situated in the District of Columbia.” 

We advise, however, that all who have the ability should 
make their gifts promptly in their lifetime, that they may have 
the satisfaction of seeing the fruit of their beneficence. The 
risk is too great and the issues too serious, in these days, to 
entrust too confidingly one’s noble benevolent plans to the 
doubtful mercies of discontented heirs and industrious attorneys. 

The undersigned most cordially invites correspondence from 
any quarter concerning The American University. They will be 


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glad to see or communicate with all who are interested in its 
behalf and desire further information concerning benefactions, 
Plans for Buildings, Endowments or Departments of Study. 

Charles C. McCabe, Chancellor . 
Wilbur h . Davidson, Secretary. 

Offices : 

Glover Building, 

1419 F Street N. W. 

Washington, D. C. 



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FORM OF WILL FOR THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY 

WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 


If a Legacy or Bequest— 

I give and bequeath to “ The American University,” a corporation in the 
District of Columbia, the sum of [insert amount], and the receipt of its Treasurer 
shall be a sufficient discharge to my executors for the same. 

If a Devise of Land— 

I give and devise to “The American University,” a corporation in the 
District of Columbia, the following land premises [insert description], with the 
appurtenances, in fee simple, for the purposes of the said University. 

If the Residue of an Estate— 

I give, devise, and bequeath all the residue and remainder of my estate, real 
and personal (including herein any and every legacy, bequest, or devise that may 
lapse or for any reason fail to take effect), to “ The American University,” a 
corporation in the District of Columbia, for the purposes of said University. 

The will should be attested by three witnesses, who should write against 
their names their places of residence, their street and number. The following 
form of attestation will answer for every State in the Union : “Signed, sealed, 
published, and declared by the said (A. B.) as his last will and testament, in the 
presence of us, who, at the request of the said (A. B.) and in his presence and in 
the presence of each other, have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses. 


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FORM OF ANNUITY CERTIFICATE ISSUED BY 
THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY 


This certifies that The American University, in consideration of the sum 

of.Dollars,.paid to it by .of.county 

of.state of.the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, 

does covenant and agree to pay to.an Annuity or yearly 

sum of.Dollars, in equal payments of. .Dollars 

each on the.day of.iu each and every year during the natural 

life of said...beginning on the . ,day of.next 

ensuing the date of this certificate, with the sum of.Dollars as 

the first payment, also to pay to.executors, administrators, or assigns such 

proportionate part of the said Annuity as may accrue from the date of the last 
payment up to the day of the death of. 


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